Villaverde (Madrid)
Villaverde is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.The municipality was absorbed by Madrid in the 1950s as a result of the plans that the Franco government made to simplify the structure of big city administrations. Since then, is a district. It was in those years when it experimented a massive growth caused by the rural flight in Spain. This is the reason that made Villaverde a typical working class neighbourhood.
This condition leaves a heavy footprint in the district, because it has conditioned the current population composition, with many retired people and immigrants attracted by the housing cheap prices.
The district is administratively divided into five wards :
